DevOps Engineer: salary 2026 at a glance
Salary at a glance: this is what DevOps Engineer earn in Germany – from 519 job ads with a stated salary and 66 salary data sets.
Median, gross
€61,831
€42,169 lower 10 %
€89,210 upper 10 %
How salaries are distributed
Each column = number of salary figures per €5,000 band · basis 585
You
- Between lower and upper 10 % (€42,169 – €89,210)
- Edges
Salary rises with experience
Median and middle 50 % per level · jobs + data sets
€51,000
Junior
48,000 – 56,500
30 values
€61,500
Mid-level
55,000 – 69,000
+21 % · 414 values
€65,000
Senior
59,500 – 72,000
+27 % · 117 values
€70,500
Lead/Principal
65,000 – 76,000
+38 % · 18 values
Salary by federal state
Median of the salary data sets for DevOps Engineer per federal state. The samples are small here – read the figures as a trend, not a guarantee.
- Baden-Württemberg €70,500 n = 8
- North Rhine-Westphalia €68,500 n = 6
- Bavaria €68,500 n = 5
- Hesse €67,500 n = 5
- Hamburg €67,000 n = 5
- Berlin €62,000 n = 5
- Lower Saxony €56,000 n = 4
- Brandenburg €56,000 n = 5
- Rhineland-Palatinate €55,500 n = 4
- Schleswig-Holstein €54,500 n = 5
- Saxony €54,000 n = 5
- Thuringia €53,500 n = 4
- Saarland €51,000 n = 5
What a skill is worth
Median of jobs with the technology compared with jobs without – both groups at least 20 jobs
- Go +7.3 % €66,500 n = 26
- Java +5.7 % €65,000 n = 44
- Prometheus +4.9 % €64,500 n = 85
- Grafana +4.9 % €64,000 n = 111
- Terraform +4.1 % €63,500 n = 231
- Kubernetes +3.3 % €63,000 n = 333
- Git +3.3 % €63,500 n = 87
- GCP +2.4 % €63,500 n = 37
- GitLab CI +2.4 % €63,500 n = 51
- Jenkins +1.6 % €63,000 n = 110
Centre = same salary as jobs without the technology · bars up to ±7 %
Open positions as DevOps Engineer
All in the job search
Lead DevOps Platform Engineer (m/w/d)
Salary not stated
DevOps Engineer (m/w/d)
€59,000 – €80,000
above median
DevOps-Engineer/Systemadministrator (m/w/d)
€60,000 – €90,000
above median
Senior DevOps Engineer (m/w/d) Kapazitätsmanagement
€51,000 – €70,000
below median
DevOps Engineer - PKI Plattform Services (m/w/d)
€56,000 – €77,000
above median
Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer (m/w/d)
€50,000 – €70,000
below median
DevOps Engineer: job profile and outlook
DevOps Engineers connect software development and IT operations and create the basis for fast, reliable and automated software releases. They implement CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure and promote a culture of collaboration between development and operations teams. Your goal is to make the entire software lifecycle more efficient and error-free. The technical requirements for DevOps Engineers are wide-ranging: experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code with Terraform or Ansible, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions as well as monitoring solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana. In addition, there is knowledge of at least one cloud platform, scripting in Bash or Python and a sound understanding of networks and security. Salaries for DevOps Engineers are among the highest in the IT industry and reflect the central importance of the role for modern software development. Demand far outstrips supply, resulting in attractive remuneration packages. Cloud providers, FinTech companies and large technology groups in particular offer top salaries, with career paths leading from Junior DevOps Engineer to Senior Engineer to DevOps Architect, Platform Engineer or Head of Infrastructure. Specialisations in Cloud Security, GitOps or Observability offer further opportunities for advancement. The DevOps movement has become an integral part of modern software development.
Similarly paid roles
Same axis – directly comparable
- DevOps Engineer this role €61,831
- Salesforce Developer €61,755 Compare with Salesforce Developer
- Platform Engineer €61,473 Compare with Platform Engineer
- Big Data Engineer €62,194 Compare with Big Data Engineer
- Kubernetes specialist €61,377 Compare with Kubernetes specialist
- Cloud Engineer €62,308 Compare with Cloud Engineer
- Machine Learning Engineer €62,494 Compare with Machine Learning Engineer
€40,000 – €100,000 · bar = lower to upper 10 %, line = median
How we calculate
- Sources: job ads with a stated salary that are assigned to a role, plus recorded salary data sets. Currently 6,380 active IT jobs state their salary.
- Range: lower 10 % to upper 10 % (P10–P90), so that individual outliers do not shift the limits. The median splits the values into two equal halves.
- Plausible: only gross annual salaries between €15,000 and €250,000; placeholders and monthly values are excluded.
- Calculator: role median × experience factor × federal state factor. The factors come from 4,290 salary data sets – each as a ratio to the median of its role, so the mix of roles does not distort them.
- Minimum size: breakdowns by skill, city and work model only appear from 20 values; every figure states its basis.
Earning more starts with the right job.
Open positions as DevOps Engineer – with salary at a glance.